Effect of target secondary structure on RNAi efficiency

RNA

Volumn 13, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1631-1640

  Shao, Yu ^a   Chi, Yu Chan ^a   Maliyekkel, Anil ^b,c   Lawrence, Charles E ^a,d   Roninson, Igor B ^b   Ding, Ye ^a  

^a WADSWORTH CENTER   (United States)

^b ORDWAY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^d BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

RNA folding; RNAi; Target structure

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; SHORT HAIRPIN RNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ARTICLE; ENERGY COST; ENERGY TRANSFER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TARGETING; RNA BINDING; RNA INTERFERENCE;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; RNA, UNTRANSLATED;

EID: 34748833042     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: 14699001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1261/rna.546207     Document Type: Article

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